Thursday, September 29, 2005

Uzbekistan - sad to say, you must be on your way.

The US has confirmed it will leave bases in Uzbekistan by the end of the year, at the request of the government. A member of the Uzbek senate cited a number of reason for this including damage to the health, economic interests, and ecology of the local population and the possibility of the base attracting attacks from 'external' forces. The fact that a number of US based NGO's have also had their activities restricted, the appearance of some surprising testimony allegedly implicating the US in the violence in Andijon and friendly political gestures towards Russia (directly and via the SCO), have all led some observers to see this as President Islam Karimov trying to protect his rule against another 'colour' revolution funded by the US more from EursasiaNet.... Relations with the US now seem to have cooled considerably since the early days of the war on terror in 2001 still more from EurasiaNet...

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